Finally get the headcount approved and converted a temp in our team to full time employees.  I’ve decided to take the team out for lunch to celebrate and to discuss a few projects in a casual environment.  The team chose to go to one of my favorite restaurants: Papadeaux.  It is a Cajun seafood restaurant.  I’ve never been to New Orleans or that area but it Papadeaux food is a fair representation of Cajun food, then I’m a fan. :)

We ordered a few appetizers, including my favorites: sautéed crab figures and Cajun frog leg.  The crab figure was perfect.  The frog leg was a bit too salty.  A few Americans tried the frog legs and liked it.  A couple more conservative colleagues skip the dish. :)  The spinach dip and calamari were nice too.  Since we are in a Cajun seafood restaurant, I couldn’t pass a cup of seafood sausage gamble, which was very delicious.  By then I’m almost full.  Then my lunch portion pasta marti grass came, which is a huge bowl of pasta cooked with prawns, crawfish, clams, sausage and mushroom in a creamy source.  Well, delicious!  But like every time I came to this restaurant, I only finished probably a quarter of the pasta and had the rest boxed. 

Bravo to a couple of my team members, who after all these food, had room to order desert!  Well, it is not all their fault.  The restaurant has this tempting approach to bring a desert tray with various deserts instead of a desert menu for you to look at and order. :)  Who can resist that!  As a result, key lime pies, cheese cakes, chocolate trophies and ice creams flush the table again.  Thank God, I had enough discipline not to order any.  But did end up share a bit of a key lime pie. :)

Everybody was satisfied with the food and we did discussed a few projects going on over desert.  Since everybody was in a very good mood, I got multiple volunteers to speed up a couple of the projects.